Software Engineer, Aptos Labs

Blockchain Core

$180-300k

Salary for the position of a candidate based in the Bay Area at any level

Swift

C++

Rust

Mid and Senior level

Remote from US

Building Layer 1 blockchain

Job no longer available

Building Layer 1 blockchain

201-500 employees

CryptocurrencyBlockchainWeb 3.0

Job no longer available

$180-300k

Salary for the position of a candidate based in the Bay Area at any level

Swift

C++

Rust

Mid and Senior level

Remote from US

201-500 employees

CryptocurrencyBlockchainWeb 3.0

Company mission

To help billions of people achieve universal and fair access to decentralized assets in a safe and scalable way.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

3 years (ideally 5+ years) of experience as a hands-on software engineer
Expertise in networking, consensus protocols, parallel execution, storage, authenticated data structures, and/or caching
Experience with a low-level programming language such as Rust, Go, Swift, or C/C++

What the job involves

Design core, backend software components, and code primarily using Rust that support a blockchain and its ecosystem of systems
Use extensive experience to build, test, debug, and deploy large-scale decentralized systems across thousands of nodes
Work with file systems, execution engines, programming language design, and consensus protocols to complete complex engineering challenges such as scaling up performance and reducing transaction latency
Develop and maintain high-quality software engineering practices and principles in a highly visible open-source project

Our take

Despite launching in just 2021, Aptos has soared to Unicorn status following an impressive funding round that saw major participation from players like PayPal Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. It's the company’s promise to build a layer 1 blockchain that has attracted all this attention as it outperforms competitors on critical metrics like scaleability and speed.

Aptos is created by the team behind Facebook’s recently shuttered cryptocurrency endeavor Diem (previously Libra), who left the company when Diem sold its tech assets to Silvergate Capital. Now, Silvergate Capital is itself an investor in the new project. This goes to show the confidence the Aptos' team commands, and the increasingly mainstream industry appetite for a blockchain that can sustain major operations.

Developers from companies like Binance, Anchorage, and Coinbase are already part of Aptos. This talent, in combination with 2024 VC funding and its remarkable 2022 Series A, will fuel the team’s progress and is a hugely promising start for the young venture.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

110% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.3)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Jul 2022

$150m

SERIES A

Mar 2022

$200m

SEED

Total funding: $350m

Company benefits

Remote-friendly work coverage
Health insurance coverage
Equipment of your choice
Unlimited Vacation time
Competitive Salary
Stock options

Company HQ

University South, Palo Alto, CA

Leadership

Mo Shaikh

(Co-Founder)

Previously held various analyst positions at companies like KPMG, Royal Bank of Canada, BlackRock, and BCG. Subsequently directed strategy at ConsenSys alongside founding and leading Meridio, then worked on strategic partnerships at Novi (Meta).

Avery Ching

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo!, Facebook, and then for the crypto platform team at Novi (Meta). Has also spent over a decade as VP of Apache Giraph.

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